TURCICA TERRA, TURKEY-EARTH, in the materia medica, a very fine bole or medicinal earth, dug in great plenty in the neighbourhood of Adrianople, and used by the Turks as a sudoric and astringent, and famous among them in pestilential diseases.
TURCICA TERRA
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